This is an analysis of the poem The Flower that begins with:
How fresh, O Lord, how sweet and clean
Are thy returns! ev'n as the flowers in spring; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccb dadaeea efefXXf eegXeee aaaaaaa adadced hihiggi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111111 110111010001 01011101 0111100101 1101 1101 10101111 11111101 1101010011 110111001 0111011111 11010 10110 10011101 111101010 1011010101 110100110 1001000101 1101 0110 11010111 11111100 1011011110110 100011111 10111011010 11110 100110 111110010 11110011 1101101011 11011101 1101110101 1111 1111 10110101 11011101 1011011111 11110111 1101011101 0100 1110 11110111 11110101 01111111011 11111111 1101011101 1101 1011 101101111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Flower;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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